Presentation given by Chris Short at the 20th FAO and CIHEAM Mountain Pasture Network held in the Lofoten Islands. Details Common Land in England, threats to them and methods of management.
The Blue New Deal initiative aims to reconcile economic prosperity with marine conservation by exploring ideas that deliver more and better jobs in coastal communities through activities supporting healthier seas. It sees jobs and environmental sustainability as linked. An upcoming action plan will be co-developed to identify solutions and practical measures to transform coastal development, assessing associated economic benefits and investment needs. The initiative involves discussions with coastal organizations, government, and industry.
The City of Newburyport, Massachusetts has undertaken numerous sustainability initiatives over the past 15 years including installing solar arrays, establishing committees to promote energy efficiency, passing wind and recycling ordinances, and designating the city as a Green Community to receive grant funding. More recent efforts involve coastal resiliency planning to address sea level rise and extreme weather through projects like dune restoration. The city also promotes sustainability through place-based education, partnerships, and engaging citizens groups.
This document discusses challenges and priorities for rural policy through 2060. By 2050, heat waves will be dangerous for human health and rainfall/snowfall patterns will change due to climate change. In Northern Europe, warmer winters but more rain will occur, along with stronger storms and changes to natural environments. Some agricultural lands will become too wet to farm and sea levels will continue rising. Priorities include investing in natural, cultural, social, and human capital resources; fostering innovative and resilient businesses and communities; and rebuilding trust between policies and people through intelligent regulation and shared responsibilities. Examples of initiatives that invest in basic resources and foster new business models are provided.
What is happening to our forests in Malaysia?focussouth
This document summarizes the threats faced by indigenous communities in Sarawak, Malaysia from various development projects since the 1970s, including logging, dams, plantations, and mining. These have resulted in loss of lands, forests, resources and cultural heritage for communities. In response, communities have organized at local and national levels, held protests, filed lawsuits, and lobbied internationally. While some legal and policy developments have been positive, communities continue facing challenges from state development plans and repressive laws. Moving forward, maintaining communication networks, promoting community-based conservation and development, and providing skills training will be important for communities.
Neilston is a former mill town that is now a commuter community outside Glasgow with pockets of disadvantage. The Neilston Development Trust aims to make Neilston a better place to live through physical improvements, cultural/social growth, and sustainable development. A key initiative was the Neilston Community Windfarm, a joint venture between the Trust and a commercial developer. The windfarm consists of 4 turbines that generate income for the community. The Trust was able to finance its stake through loans, demonstrating that community renewable energy projects can provide local economic and social benefits if communities have access to funding.
The Blue New Deal initiative aims to reconcile economic prosperity with marine conservation by exploring ideas that deliver more and better jobs in coastal communities through activities supporting healthier seas. It sees jobs and environmental sustainability as linked. An upcoming action plan will be co-developed to identify solutions and practical measures to transform coastal development, assessing associated economic benefits and investment needs. The initiative involves discussions with coastal organizations, government, and industry.
The City of Newburyport, Massachusetts has undertaken numerous sustainability initiatives over the past 15 years including installing solar arrays, establishing committees to promote energy efficiency, passing wind and recycling ordinances, and designating the city as a Green Community to receive grant funding. More recent efforts involve coastal resiliency planning to address sea level rise and extreme weather through projects like dune restoration. The city also promotes sustainability through place-based education, partnerships, and engaging citizens groups.
This document discusses challenges and priorities for rural policy through 2060. By 2050, heat waves will be dangerous for human health and rainfall/snowfall patterns will change due to climate change. In Northern Europe, warmer winters but more rain will occur, along with stronger storms and changes to natural environments. Some agricultural lands will become too wet to farm and sea levels will continue rising. Priorities include investing in natural, cultural, social, and human capital resources; fostering innovative and resilient businesses and communities; and rebuilding trust between policies and people through intelligent regulation and shared responsibilities. Examples of initiatives that invest in basic resources and foster new business models are provided.
What is happening to our forests in Malaysia?focussouth
This document summarizes the threats faced by indigenous communities in Sarawak, Malaysia from various development projects since the 1970s, including logging, dams, plantations, and mining. These have resulted in loss of lands, forests, resources and cultural heritage for communities. In response, communities have organized at local and national levels, held protests, filed lawsuits, and lobbied internationally. While some legal and policy developments have been positive, communities continue facing challenges from state development plans and repressive laws. Moving forward, maintaining communication networks, promoting community-based conservation and development, and providing skills training will be important for communities.
Neilston is a former mill town that is now a commuter community outside Glasgow with pockets of disadvantage. The Neilston Development Trust aims to make Neilston a better place to live through physical improvements, cultural/social growth, and sustainable development. A key initiative was the Neilston Community Windfarm, a joint venture between the Trust and a commercial developer. The windfarm consists of 4 turbines that generate income for the community. The Trust was able to finance its stake through loans, demonstrating that community renewable energy projects can provide local economic and social benefits if communities have access to funding.
Reducing inequality and unsustainable consumptionIIED
On 20 April, 2016, IIED hosted a discussion meeting to look at how organisations and researchers can develop policies that could reduce inequality and lessen the impact of over-consumption on the environment.
The 'critical theme' event also looked at some potential policies that could successfully target extreme consumption.
The seminar was introduced by IIED seniorn researcher Essam Yassin Mohammed, and included this presentation by independent researcher Dario Kenner on 'Reducing inequality and unsustainable consumption'.
In 2013 Kenner launched the Why Green Economy? website (http://whygreeneconomy.org/) with the aim of providing a space to share ideas on a new economic model to tackle climate change and protect the environment.
More details: http://bit.ly/1VEEaAs
The underlying causes of landscapes change in UgandaCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Kureeba David, NAPE, focuses on the status of the forests in Uganda, the underlying causes for that status, how REDD+ is involved and what the impacts of that landscapes change is.
Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture.
Title: Speedtalk - Do donuts grow on trees
Speaker: Christopher Martius
Green Deal and the Big Society in Hackbridge and Sutton. Part of the One Planet Sutton initiative.
Presention for Ecobuild 2011 by Philippa Ward Head of One Planet Regions at BioRegional.
Creative Communities and Economic Development (Maggie Woodruff)nado-web
The document summarizes the Claiborne Cultural Innovation District project in New Orleans. The district aims to revitalize the Claiborne Corridor through cultural preservation, affordable housing, healthcare facilities, transportation improvements, and creating a pedestrian-friendly urban environment. Extensive community engagement was conducted, including 11 community workshops with over 1,000 residents providing feedback. The demonstration phase tested project elements and saw local business sales increases. The project addresses issues of employment, mixed-use development, and green infrastructure through cultural programs, business associations, and goals of increasing local jobs and affordable housing while reducing neighborhood disparities.
The document discusses environmental sustainability challenges and opportunities in Malawi. It outlines Malawi's policies around forestry, environmental management, and energy. Key challenges include limited land availability for community projects and low access to modern energy services. Opportunities include decentralization policies, extension staff for capacity building, and proven alternative energy technologies. The document calls for strengthening links with Scotland through renewable energy policy, sector development, and models for sustainable community energy.
The document discusses options for supporting upland farming in the UK after Brexit. It argues that most UK agriculture is uncompetitive in global markets and upland farming provides little direct economic value. However, uplands provide valuable natural capital in the form of moors, peat bogs, rivers, and habitats that support biodiversity and carbon sequestration. Support for upland farming after Brexit could focus on maintaining this natural capital through payments for providing public goods like environmental services. Support mechanisms may include direct payments to farmers, payments from users and industries that benefit from natural capital, and grants from conservation organizations. The objective is for upland farming to sustain rural communities and landscapes while providing environmental services like biodiversity and water management.
This document outlines a vision and action plan for sustainable development along the Guadalete river basin in Spain. It discusses objectives in areas like water quality, water quantity, ecosystem management, and economic development. It proposes various measures like improving wastewater treatment, promoting renewable energy, education initiatives, green infrastructure projects, sustainable tourism, and balancing economic and natural resource goals. Stakeholders are grouped according to their priorities and the plan identifies both short and long term actions needed to achieve an integrated approach to river management.
PCC is piloting sustainable community projects in Southsea and Paulsgrove exploring actions in its Greener Homes Strategy. In Southsea, it will retrofit 84 Jubilee Road as an exemplar and deliver activities like roadshows and trainings. In Whitehill Bordon, it will retrofit buildings including a fire station and schools, engage the community through events, and work with the local authority. In Hyde District, it will support an existing climate group and direct residents to advice. In Weston Shore, it will lend 100 electricity monitors to residents in tower blocks to educate them on reducing usage and savings.
This document discusses mining and biodiversity conservation management. It outlines the mitigation hierarchy for mining operations and shows examples of mine sites being reclaimed for wildlife habitat. Maintaining a social license to operate is among the top risks for mining companies. The document proposes commitments to biodiversity conservation, including not operating in protected areas. It presents a biodiversity conservation management protocol and discusses biodiversity offsets to achieve no net loss. Case studies demonstrate community biodiversity projects in Burkina Faso and wetland restoration in the US. Future challenges include implementing offsets, determining costs and ratios, integrating requirements, and severing long-term liability.
The document discusses land management in the UK from the perspective of Shared Assets, an organization that supports community management of woodlands, waterways, green spaces, and coastal areas. It outlines Shared Assets' approach of using social enterprise management, commons governance, and creative engagement to help transform undermanaged land into productive community spaces. Examples of projects involve woodland, farming, and public open space management. The challenges of contested spaces, privatization of public assets, and developing successful business models are also addressed.
The document discusses efforts in Newark, NJ to promote healthier outcomes after the city's industrial past negatively impacted the environment and residents' health. Initiatives include expanding open spaces, sustainability programs, brownfield redevelopment, zoning for walkability and safety, and attracting clean industry. Recent projects involve creating new parks, hiring a Chief Sustainability Officer, assessing contaminated sites, and updating zoning codes. The overall goal is to transform Newark into a healthier, more sustainable and greener city.
This presentation about Templederry Community Wind Farm was delivered by Paul Kenny, at the Manage Energy event 'Energy Agencies & Energy Services of Regional Authorities'
The document summarizes the formation and achievements of the Outdoor Recreation Consortium, a partnership between NZDA, FMC, and Trailfund NZ that was formed in 2014 to maintain huts and tracks on public conservation land in New Zealand. It discusses the risks FMC saw in being involved, the fundamentals agreed upon, what has been learned and achieved over the past two years, and looks toward continuing the momentum of volunteer maintenance work.
LA Open Data Incentive Scheme – launch presentation, July 2014LG Inform Plus
This document provides an overview of a Local Authority Incentive Scheme to encourage more local authorities to publish open data. It outlines the agenda for an event to launch the scheme, including presentations on the benefits of open data, examples of economic impact, and details of the scheme and how local authorities can apply for funding. Local authorities will be incentivized to publish key datasets around public conveniences, planning, and licenses to make the data more consistent, accessible and help address common Freedom of Information requests.
The document outlines plans for an environmental volunteering program in East London communities surrounding the 2012 Olympic Park. The program aims to improve environmental quality and increase local environmental awareness through supporting existing initiatives like greening waterways, protecting woodlands, and green gyms. It will also provide funding for small community-led projects and signpost volunteers to resources. Future plans include continued support of local projects, new initiatives, and employment opportunities.
Professor Ian Hodge's seminar for the CCRI on 24th October 2022.
There are two emergent movements in the governance of rural land: voluntary and local government initiatives that assess, plan and enhance landscape and biodiversity and a largely separate central government initiative for the development of Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes as a key element of national agricultural policy. This is developed and implemented by central government with a relatively large budget.
These two movements should be better integrated through the development of a system of Local Environmental Governance Organisations (LEGOs). A LEGO would stand as a ‘trustee’ with a remit to protect and enhance the quality of the local environment in the long term. It can assemble evidence on natural capital, co-ordinate amongst stakeholders and work with them to identify local priorities for nature recovery. It would search for synergies and collaborative partnerships and raise funds to support priority projects. A key point is that a proportion of central government funding should be devolved to LEGOs. This would link the vision being developed locally with the capacity to generate financial incentives for land managers to change land management.
Natural Cambridgeshire as the Local Nature Partnership is developing a number of the attributes of a LEGO. It is engaging with and appears to have support from a broad variety of stakeholders and is energising actions at several different levels. Through a local deliberative process, it can have a much clearer view of local opportunities and priorities than can be possible via central government. Natural Cambridgeshire has begun to raise funds but the likelihood is that this is will be too little, relatively short term and unsystematic. Longer term core funding would give Natural Cambridgeshire the capacity to back up proposals with financial support, potentially matching funding from other sources. It would then need to monitor and audit the implementation of projects and report on expenditure and outcomes. Over time it would adopt an adaptive approach to respond to outcomes and changing threats and opportunities.
National government needs to establish a framework for the development and operation of a system of LEGOs. It would continue to act in support of national standards, both through regulation and investment to meet international commitments, such as for biodiversity and climate change.
Biodiversity Action Conference Slides for Distribution.pptxtroche3
The document discusses a conference on biodiversity action hosted by Community Foundation Ireland. It provides an agenda for the conference which includes presentations on exemplary community biodiversity action plans, the citizen's assembly on biodiversity loss, the evolving Tidy Towns competition, and a workshop on successes and challenges. It also announces that the foundation's biodiversity fund is open for applications to develop community biodiversity action plans or implement recommendations from existing plans.
Diane Gray's presentation on HLF funding and work in Dumfries and Galloway as a Development Priority Area. Presentation to D&G staff and councillors in Annan, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Stranraer in Feb 2014
Reducing inequality and unsustainable consumptionIIED
On 20 April, 2016, IIED hosted a discussion meeting to look at how organisations and researchers can develop policies that could reduce inequality and lessen the impact of over-consumption on the environment.
The 'critical theme' event also looked at some potential policies that could successfully target extreme consumption.
The seminar was introduced by IIED seniorn researcher Essam Yassin Mohammed, and included this presentation by independent researcher Dario Kenner on 'Reducing inequality and unsustainable consumption'.
In 2013 Kenner launched the Why Green Economy? website (http://whygreeneconomy.org/) with the aim of providing a space to share ideas on a new economic model to tackle climate change and protect the environment.
More details: http://bit.ly/1VEEaAs
The underlying causes of landscapes change in UgandaCIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Kureeba David, NAPE, focuses on the status of the forests in Uganda, the underlying causes for that status, how REDD+ is involved and what the impacts of that landscapes change is.
Presentation at the 5th Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture.
Title: Speedtalk - Do donuts grow on trees
Speaker: Christopher Martius
Green Deal and the Big Society in Hackbridge and Sutton. Part of the One Planet Sutton initiative.
Presention for Ecobuild 2011 by Philippa Ward Head of One Planet Regions at BioRegional.
Creative Communities and Economic Development (Maggie Woodruff)nado-web
The document summarizes the Claiborne Cultural Innovation District project in New Orleans. The district aims to revitalize the Claiborne Corridor through cultural preservation, affordable housing, healthcare facilities, transportation improvements, and creating a pedestrian-friendly urban environment. Extensive community engagement was conducted, including 11 community workshops with over 1,000 residents providing feedback. The demonstration phase tested project elements and saw local business sales increases. The project addresses issues of employment, mixed-use development, and green infrastructure through cultural programs, business associations, and goals of increasing local jobs and affordable housing while reducing neighborhood disparities.
The document discusses environmental sustainability challenges and opportunities in Malawi. It outlines Malawi's policies around forestry, environmental management, and energy. Key challenges include limited land availability for community projects and low access to modern energy services. Opportunities include decentralization policies, extension staff for capacity building, and proven alternative energy technologies. The document calls for strengthening links with Scotland through renewable energy policy, sector development, and models for sustainable community energy.
The document discusses options for supporting upland farming in the UK after Brexit. It argues that most UK agriculture is uncompetitive in global markets and upland farming provides little direct economic value. However, uplands provide valuable natural capital in the form of moors, peat bogs, rivers, and habitats that support biodiversity and carbon sequestration. Support for upland farming after Brexit could focus on maintaining this natural capital through payments for providing public goods like environmental services. Support mechanisms may include direct payments to farmers, payments from users and industries that benefit from natural capital, and grants from conservation organizations. The objective is for upland farming to sustain rural communities and landscapes while providing environmental services like biodiversity and water management.
This document outlines a vision and action plan for sustainable development along the Guadalete river basin in Spain. It discusses objectives in areas like water quality, water quantity, ecosystem management, and economic development. It proposes various measures like improving wastewater treatment, promoting renewable energy, education initiatives, green infrastructure projects, sustainable tourism, and balancing economic and natural resource goals. Stakeholders are grouped according to their priorities and the plan identifies both short and long term actions needed to achieve an integrated approach to river management.
PCC is piloting sustainable community projects in Southsea and Paulsgrove exploring actions in its Greener Homes Strategy. In Southsea, it will retrofit 84 Jubilee Road as an exemplar and deliver activities like roadshows and trainings. In Whitehill Bordon, it will retrofit buildings including a fire station and schools, engage the community through events, and work with the local authority. In Hyde District, it will support an existing climate group and direct residents to advice. In Weston Shore, it will lend 100 electricity monitors to residents in tower blocks to educate them on reducing usage and savings.
This document discusses mining and biodiversity conservation management. It outlines the mitigation hierarchy for mining operations and shows examples of mine sites being reclaimed for wildlife habitat. Maintaining a social license to operate is among the top risks for mining companies. The document proposes commitments to biodiversity conservation, including not operating in protected areas. It presents a biodiversity conservation management protocol and discusses biodiversity offsets to achieve no net loss. Case studies demonstrate community biodiversity projects in Burkina Faso and wetland restoration in the US. Future challenges include implementing offsets, determining costs and ratios, integrating requirements, and severing long-term liability.
The document discusses land management in the UK from the perspective of Shared Assets, an organization that supports community management of woodlands, waterways, green spaces, and coastal areas. It outlines Shared Assets' approach of using social enterprise management, commons governance, and creative engagement to help transform undermanaged land into productive community spaces. Examples of projects involve woodland, farming, and public open space management. The challenges of contested spaces, privatization of public assets, and developing successful business models are also addressed.
The document discusses efforts in Newark, NJ to promote healthier outcomes after the city's industrial past negatively impacted the environment and residents' health. Initiatives include expanding open spaces, sustainability programs, brownfield redevelopment, zoning for walkability and safety, and attracting clean industry. Recent projects involve creating new parks, hiring a Chief Sustainability Officer, assessing contaminated sites, and updating zoning codes. The overall goal is to transform Newark into a healthier, more sustainable and greener city.
This presentation about Templederry Community Wind Farm was delivered by Paul Kenny, at the Manage Energy event 'Energy Agencies & Energy Services of Regional Authorities'
The document summarizes the formation and achievements of the Outdoor Recreation Consortium, a partnership between NZDA, FMC, and Trailfund NZ that was formed in 2014 to maintain huts and tracks on public conservation land in New Zealand. It discusses the risks FMC saw in being involved, the fundamentals agreed upon, what has been learned and achieved over the past two years, and looks toward continuing the momentum of volunteer maintenance work.
LA Open Data Incentive Scheme – launch presentation, July 2014LG Inform Plus
This document provides an overview of a Local Authority Incentive Scheme to encourage more local authorities to publish open data. It outlines the agenda for an event to launch the scheme, including presentations on the benefits of open data, examples of economic impact, and details of the scheme and how local authorities can apply for funding. Local authorities will be incentivized to publish key datasets around public conveniences, planning, and licenses to make the data more consistent, accessible and help address common Freedom of Information requests.
The document outlines plans for an environmental volunteering program in East London communities surrounding the 2012 Olympic Park. The program aims to improve environmental quality and increase local environmental awareness through supporting existing initiatives like greening waterways, protecting woodlands, and green gyms. It will also provide funding for small community-led projects and signpost volunteers to resources. Future plans include continued support of local projects, new initiatives, and employment opportunities.
Professor Ian Hodge's seminar for the CCRI on 24th October 2022.
There are two emergent movements in the governance of rural land: voluntary and local government initiatives that assess, plan and enhance landscape and biodiversity and a largely separate central government initiative for the development of Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes as a key element of national agricultural policy. This is developed and implemented by central government with a relatively large budget.
These two movements should be better integrated through the development of a system of Local Environmental Governance Organisations (LEGOs). A LEGO would stand as a ‘trustee’ with a remit to protect and enhance the quality of the local environment in the long term. It can assemble evidence on natural capital, co-ordinate amongst stakeholders and work with them to identify local priorities for nature recovery. It would search for synergies and collaborative partnerships and raise funds to support priority projects. A key point is that a proportion of central government funding should be devolved to LEGOs. This would link the vision being developed locally with the capacity to generate financial incentives for land managers to change land management.
Natural Cambridgeshire as the Local Nature Partnership is developing a number of the attributes of a LEGO. It is engaging with and appears to have support from a broad variety of stakeholders and is energising actions at several different levels. Through a local deliberative process, it can have a much clearer view of local opportunities and priorities than can be possible via central government. Natural Cambridgeshire has begun to raise funds but the likelihood is that this is will be too little, relatively short term and unsystematic. Longer term core funding would give Natural Cambridgeshire the capacity to back up proposals with financial support, potentially matching funding from other sources. It would then need to monitor and audit the implementation of projects and report on expenditure and outcomes. Over time it would adopt an adaptive approach to respond to outcomes and changing threats and opportunities.
National government needs to establish a framework for the development and operation of a system of LEGOs. It would continue to act in support of national standards, both through regulation and investment to meet international commitments, such as for biodiversity and climate change.
Biodiversity Action Conference Slides for Distribution.pptxtroche3
The document discusses a conference on biodiversity action hosted by Community Foundation Ireland. It provides an agenda for the conference which includes presentations on exemplary community biodiversity action plans, the citizen's assembly on biodiversity loss, the evolving Tidy Towns competition, and a workshop on successes and challenges. It also announces that the foundation's biodiversity fund is open for applications to develop community biodiversity action plans or implement recommendations from existing plans.
Diane Gray's presentation on HLF funding and work in Dumfries and Galloway as a Development Priority Area. Presentation to D&G staff and councillors in Annan, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Stranraer in Feb 2014
The document discusses the Genealogical Society of Ireland and its role in promoting genealogy research. It summarizes that the Society was founded in 1990 and seeks to promote genealogy through educational activities, publications, and advocacy. It advocates for maintaining genealogical records as a public resource and ensuring free access for both Irish citizens and the global Irish diaspora. The Society calls for a national policy to better coordinate genealogical services across institutions and develop this resource in a sustainable way.
03 - NAAONB Conference 2012 - Making Space for Nature by Sir John LawtonNAAONB landscapesforlife
Sir John Lawton sets the scene by linking to AONB Management, the key points from the Report for establishing a strong and connected natural environment.
On 17 and 18 June 2020 the EPA held its National Water Event as an online conference.
This year's theme was 'Restoring our waters'.
This years event was free to attend. It was the EPA's largest water event ever, with over 1250 attending.
To everyone who joined us: thanks for attending; thanks for your probing questions; thanks for your passion; thanks for caring about our waters. We can achieve more working together.
Special thanks to all our presenters and the team who worked behind the scenes to make sure this years conference happened.
For science and stories about water quality in Ireland, check out www.catchments.ie
Parks for People is a program managed by the Heritage Lottery Fund that has awarded over £700 million to more than 700 parks across the UK since 1996. The program also funds cemeteries as designed landscapes that are at risk and have important heritage value as well as serving as important urban greenspaces. Some of the challenges cemeteries face include maintaining at-risk buildings, high conservation costs, ownership models, balancing biodiversity with tidy appearances, and ensuring ongoing revenue and sustainability. The Heritage Lottery Fund has already funded conservation projects at several cemeteries including Arnos Vale in Bristol, Dean Road Jewish Cemetery in Liverpool, and Stirling Old Town Cemetery in Scotland.
Lucy Hares HLF cemeteries presentation 17 June 2014HLFpresentations
Parks for People is a program managed by the Heritage Lottery Fund that has awarded over £700 million to more than 700 parks across the UK since 1996. The program also funds cemeteries as designed landscapes that are at risk and have important heritage value as well as serving as important urban greenspaces. Some of the challenges cemeteries face include maintaining at-risk buildings, high conservation costs, ownership models, balancing biodiversity with tidy appearances, and ensuring ongoing revenue and sustainability. The Heritage Lottery Fund has already funded conservation projects at several cemeteries including Arnos Vale in Bristol, Dean Road Jewish Cemetery in Liverpool, and Stirling Old Town Cemetery in Scotland.
Pat Conaty 'The Commonwealth Wheel' Dec '13 Shared Assets
This document discusses community land trusts (CLTs) and reclaiming the commons. It provides examples of CLTs in the UK, Scotland, and USA. CLTs are nonprofit organizations that develop and steward affordable housing, community gardens, commercial spaces, and other assets to meet community needs. The document outlines the history and growth of CLTs, provides the "Commonwealth Wheel" model for CLT project development, and discusses funding support available for CLTs in England and Wales through the National CLT Fund. Case studies of specific CLTs in St Minver, Cornwall and on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland are also summarized.
This session from the 2014 National Landcare Conference explores different strategies in creating a 'digital shopfront' for Landcare in the online age, using tools such as crowdfunding platform Pozible, Google Earth and social media.
www.pozible.com/landcare
Presenters: Rob Dulhunty, Chairman, Landcare NSW Inc; Alan Crabbe - Co-Founder, Pozible; David Walker - Chairman, National
Landcare Network; Rob Youl - OAM, Chairman, Australian Landcare International; Jenny Quealy - Marketing Consultant, Landcare NSW Inc; Sonia Williams, General Manager, NSW Landcare Inc
LWB12: Peter Wanless, Big Lottery FundCivic Agenda
Presentation by Peter Wanless, Chief Executive of the Big Lottery Fund, during the first plenary 'Promoting Well-being in London's communities - The here and now' at the third London Well-being Conference.
T213 walton managing land for common good testimonianza 15-11-2014laboratoridalbasso
The document discusses land management in the UK from the perspective of Shared Assets, an organization that supports community management of woodlands, waterways, and green spaces. It provides examples of social enterprises in the UK that manage land and resources for the common good through approaches like social enterprise management, commons governance, and creative engagement. Case studies are presented on woodland management groups, community farms, and organizations managing public parks and open spaces. Different business models for generating capital and revenue are also examined.
West Weald Landscape Project Conference: South downs woodlands, heathlands an...Sussex Wildlife Trust
The South Downs National Park Forestry Partnership, Heathlands Reunited, and Woodland Bats Project aim to conserve and enhance woodland and heathland habitats. The forestry partnership maps woodland ownership and works with landowners on management. Heathlands Reunited expands heathland areas through restoration and improves ecological connectivity. The bats project restores woodland bat habitats through woodland restoration and enhancing roosting and foraging areas. Together these projects work to improve biodiversity in the national park through collaborative habitat management.
This document discusses funding international research collaboration. It begins by outlining some of the major global challenges that research seeks to address, such as climate change, health issues, and food security. It then provides an overview of UK research funding through UKRI and its delivery plans to invest over £7 billion annually in partnership with academia and industry. Various funding mechanisms for international collaboration are described, including the Newton Fund, Fund for International Collaboration, and Global Challenges Research Fund. Examples of bilateral and multilateral research collaborations between the UK and countries like Finland are also highlighted.
Strengthening Community Resilience to Impacts of Climate Change and Stewardsh...CANAAFRICA
This document summarizes a project aimed at strengthening community resilience to climate change impacts in Baringo, Laikipia, and Kajiado counties in Kenya. The project objectives were to 1) develop a climate change adaptation framework, 2) enhance communities' capacity to adopt climate-smart agriculture, and 3) provide information on climate change adaptation. The project approached included climate vulnerability assessments, developing interventions based on predicted impacts like water scarcity, and involving communities and county leadership. Achievements included empowering communities with conservation practices, innovative water harvesting technologies, and disseminating information through media channels. Challenges involved reduced water sources, illiteracy, and technological issues like solar pump breakdowns.
Similar to Our Upland Commons - By Chris Short & Julia Aglinoby (20)
Sania Dzalbe is a PhD student in economic geography at Umeå University in Sweden who studies how people in rural areas adapt to crisis and adversity. Drawing from her upbringing in rural Latvia, she notes the importance of social reproduction in sustaining rural livelihoods, which often goes overlooked in traditional regional economic analysis. She argues that the concept of resilience is connected to the concept of loss, as during moments of crisis and major restructuring, societies lose not only jobs and industries but also the very mechanisms through which they shape their environment, both physically and socially. Current resilience studies in economic geography tend to disregard the role of social reproduction and the losses experienced by individuals by predominantly focusing on firms and economic production. However, to understand the evolution of rural regions and communities amid various challenges they face, one must recognize that social reproduction cannot be separated from economic and knowledge production processes.
A presentation of participatory research methods and how CCRI has used them over time throughto the Living Labs approach now in use in a number of our grant funded research projects.
This presentation introduces the UK Treescapes Ambassador team and the research projects and research fellows they have funded under the programme.
The presentation also looks at some of the research being carried out at the CCRI on Trees, Woods and Forests.
This presentation highlights key methods and issues arising from the research in the EU Horizon funded projects MINAGRIS and SPRINT regading the presence and effect of pesticides and plastics in the soil.
This presentation considers the changing policy environment for public funding of agri-environment, the shift from entitlements to action-based funding and 'public good' outcomes, using a 'Test and Trials' case study.
Footage for the associated seminar: https://youtu.be/Z0Hkt7Sf0VA
The talk will focus on the current state of soil governance in Australia, alongside the recently released National Soil Strategy and debate how knowledge exchange on sustainable soil management is progressing. The need to maintain a healthy and functioning soil that is resilient and less vulnerable to climate change and land degradation is an ever-present goal. Yet to achieve this goal requires a critical mass of soil scientists who can effectively undertake research and more importantly people who can communicate such knowledge to farmers so that soil is protected through the use of landscape-appropriate practices. Decades of government de-investment and privatisation have led to a diminished and fragmented workforce that is distant from, rather than part of, the rural community, and farmers are also increasingly isolated with few functional social networks for knowledge exchange. Is it possible to chart a course that can see this decline in expertise and local soil knowledge corrected, and restore to it vitality and legitimacy?
Presentation made to CCRI as part of our seminar series. Footage of seminar: https://youtu.be/tWcArqtqxjI
Latvian meadows are inextricably connected to the Latvian identity. An identity built on the concept of the industrious peasant working their own land, free from the oppression of tyrannical regimes. This cultural association also feeds into the mid-summer festivals as the women weave the flower-filled crowns and people collect herbal teas to ward off illness over the winter. These biodiverse havens are under threat, as they are neglected or replaced with improved grasslands with their higher yields but lower diversity.
1) The document discusses research into how social and intellectual capital contribute to collective environmental action through Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund (CSFF) groups in the UK.
2) Key findings indicate that while CSFF funding aims to develop social capital, most knowledge sharing currently occurs between members with close ties, and there is limited evidence of collective environmental action.
3) Continued support is needed to strengthen relationships, facilitate knowledge exchange across different actor groups, and provide funding to enable CSFF groups to deliver landscape-scale environmental improvements over time.
The presentation will give a brief overview of the 'UrbanFarmer' project and its various facets, including the integration of a cohort of Norwegian farmers and agricultural research organisations in the co-production of applied knowledge.
The main thrust of the presentation will be to present similarities and differences in the way that food in short food supply chains is marketed through different farm enterprise business models, and different sales channels. Differences in policy backdrops and other, related, contexts which help or hinder urban marketing through short food supply chains concluding with some ideas of emerging recommendations will also be explored.
Dr Anna Birgitte Milford is a researcher at Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, working on topics related to sustainable food production and consumption, including organic/pesticide reduced fruit and veg production, local sales channels and climate friendly diets. She was a visiting scholar at CCRI, University of Gloucestershire in autumn 2021 conducting field research on urban agriculture and local sales channels in Bristol.
Dr Dan Keech is a Senior Research Fellow at CCRI, University of Gloucestershire. His research topics cover European urban and alternative food networks, Anglo-German cultural geography and trans-disciplinary methods which link art and social science.
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Our Upland Commons - By Chris Short & Julia Aglinoby
1. Our Common Cause: Our
Upland Commons
Chris Short1,2 and
Julia Aglionby1
1 Foundation for Common Land
2 CCRI
Mountain Pasture Network ~ Lofoten Islands 2018
2. Overview
• Introduction to common land in England
• Why are these areas important?
• Threats to commons and commoners
• Sharing successful (local) approaches
• Early findings
• Our Common Cause: Our Upland Commons
3. Common land in England
• Origin from time when resources shared
• Rights to ‘products’ from land others own
• Links to traditional customs and rituals
• Source of pasture, fuel, materials, bedding
• ~370,000 ha (3%); ~4,000 active commoners
• Most in uplands of North and South West
• Most recent legislation Commons Act 2006
• Mix of private property, multiple rights and
significant public interest
4.
5. Why are commons important?
• 3% of area but 88% at least nationally imp
• 39% of Open Access Land is common
• 82% of commons in NPs or AONBs
• 21% of SSSI land by area is common land
• 11% of designated ancient monuments
• Important for carbon storage, drinking water
• Link to local customs, traditions, breeds
• Food production.
6. Threats to commons & commoners
• Poor link between commoners/commons &
provision public benefits
• Finances of upland farming challenging
• Dependant on support £ & Agri-env schemes
• Threat of single issue approach
• Declining numbers of commoners (age, farm)
• Lack of understanding among public
7. Sharing successful (local) approaches
• ‘Better Outcomes’ Pilot project, best practice
for multiple outcomes on 5 commons
• Multi-actor discussions & social learning:
Agreed outcomes
Future framework
Co-management
Local focus
Collins & Ison 2009
9. Our Common Cause: Our Upland
Commons
• A partnership project bringing together 23 NGO,
government and farming organisations convened by the
Foundation for Common Land. The accountable body is
the National Trust
• Two year Development Phase Funding from the Heritage
Lottery Fund
• Aiming for a Three Year Delivery Phase
• Working in Four Upland Areas of England
• A Charter for 21st Century Commons
10. Our Common Cause: Our Upland
Commons
• Increasing mutual understanding to secure collaborative
management on commons
– Knowledge exchange of shared learning
• Tackling loss of culture and social role of commons &
communing
– Programme of events, material etc.
• Improving the contribution of communing to public goods
& services
– Innovative approaches for multiple benefits
11. Thanks for listening!
• Any points for clarification or questions?
cshort@glos.ac.uk
@chrisshortccri
@4CommonLand
www.foundationforcommonland.org.uk
Editor's Notes
3 topics for discussion:
- How can a range of outcomes be delivered & enhanced on the same piece of land?
- Payments for ecosystem services
- Understanding rights and responsibilities